Target Population:

NGOs, banks and service providers who want to improve and develop their business in e‐commerce

Modules:

Electronic commerce & e-business fundamentals

e-Government

Regulatory framework

ICT tools

Payment

Logistics

Marketing

The way forward

Course on Digital Identity for Trade and Development

A DACUM session on Digital Identity was held on 18th and 19th September in UNCTAD’s HQ. The purpose of this exercise, called Design a Curriculum (DACUM), as part of the TrainForTrade methodology, is to conduct brainstorming with subject matter experts (World Bank, World Economic Forum, the Republic of Estonia, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP, Access Now, University of Lausanne) in order to define the objectives and contents of the course to be developed, including the training objectives, identify the target population, describe the value of the training to the participants and design the test for each objective and finally to sequence the course objectives and group them into modules to form the curriculum.

Objectives:

Draft policies on digital identity for trade and development

Identify limits of data protection and digital identity

Define the scope of digital identity governance

Evaluate risks and solutions related to digital identity for trade and development

Expected results

Organization of a regional face-to-face workshop for each of the components (e-Commerce, Digital Authentication)

These workshops will enable the selected participants from Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore to :
– Further elaborate on the knowledge acquired from the e-Learning courses
– Use this knowledge to explore policy channels which can be practically applied in their countries to boost their e-Commerce adoption efforts.
– These workshops will also be open to other ASEAN member countries (no dedicated funding)

Compilation and publication of selected case studies produced as an outcome of the workshops

Participants from the beneficiary countries will be tasked with developing case studies on how to leverage their newly enhanced knowledge to contribute to reduce existing challenges in their country and provide policy recommendations that can be advanced at national and regional level.
– The best case studies written by training participants will be compiled and featured in a publication on e-Commerce and Digital Authentication Methods in South-East Asia.

Organization of a regional workshop to discuss and validate the policy proposals related to e-commerce and digital authentication

Selection of participants to review and validate the policy proposals that were advanced in the case studies

The workshop will also be open to the ASEAN Secretariat and partners; as well as other interested ASEAN member countries that took part in the previous courses delivered.

Indonesia

The projections estimate that the volume of business of e-Commerce will grow up to $130 billion by 2020

Philippines

Priorities: Fighting cybercrime and full implementation of the e-Government scheme

• Main challenges: digital authentication which hampers government’s efforts to fully implement e-Government as physical documents are still required and there is a “lack of a single identification card to identify a citizen”

Singapore

A Smart Nation: E-Commerce market is growing fast, they have high speed and good ICT infrastructure

The volume of business of on-line shopping was at $1.1 B in 2010, it grew to $3.5 B in 2014. It is expected that this volume will grow up to $46.3 B by 2020

1 strategic national project is the development of the National Digital Identity (NDI), which will allow citizens and businesses to transact online in a convenient and secure manner